--- John S. Niles, President
Global Telematics is a research and consulting firm that approaches opportunities and problems in individual, organizational, and community performance with deep technology understanding and a policy perspective.
Our viewpoint expressed in our consulting services encompasses both information and communications technology (ICT or telematics) as well as transportation (physical movement).
We do analysis, design, planning, presentations, and training for businesses large and small, think tanks, government agencies, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, regional planning organizations, non-profit civic associations, and many others. Click here for a summary of our services.We have been in continuous operation under the name "Global Telematics" since 1986. Jump to what's new.
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A different "Global Telematics" joint venture based in Europe, begun in 1997 and unrelated to us, offers products serving the Intelligent Transportation System market. See http://www.global-telematics.com. There was also a firm in California with a similar name, with which we have never had a relationship.
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Global Telematics works on fixing traffic congestion in urban locations. We participate in the Regional Traffic Operations Committee of Puget Sound Regional Council, and we have recently worked with Siemens ITS in Tukwila, Washington on regional signal synchronization.
John Niles wrote a summary short essay on Fighting Traffic Congestion with Traffic Operations Management (T-Ops) for The Seattle Times.
Telecommuting, Intelligent Transportation, and other aspects of how telecom affects transportation are covered in the Discovery Institute Inquiry report, Technology & Transportation: The Dynamic Relationship, September 2001 by John Niles. Download in PDF here.
Global Telematics was project manager for the King County Council's Tunnel Team looking at the performance implications of the policy choice between Bus Rapid Transit and Light Rail in the unique Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel.
Flexible instant ridesharing, as first presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. A new approach to public transportation. Other web links have been added since.
John Niles participated during 2005 in a review of U.S. transportation planning sponsored by the Albany, NY area metropolitan planning organization, the State of New York, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Observations from him and others on the results were presented to the January 2006 meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
Is New Urbanism and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) an effective and efficient public policy approach to shaping urban land use and consumer travel behavior in the age of telematics? In partnership with Integrated Transport Research, Inc., we have been exploring this question since 1998 in a series of papers and presentations to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and American Planning Association (APA).
In July, 1999 we began an association with Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University to create a planning template for Transit Oriented Development. Project is described here. The final report, A New Planning Template for Transit-Oriented Development is now available.
Our work was featured in a series of El Pomar Policy Leadership Forums held in Colorado Springs. Sprawl and Congestion: Are Light Rail, High Density Living and “Transit-Oriented Development” the Answer? was held June 16-17, 1999. Agenda available here.
"Adding Telecommunications to the Planning Mix: Modifying and Tuning Smart Growth," at the Cascadia Pacific - Heartland Forum, Bellingham, Washington, April 29, 1999. This talk by John Niles describes the linkage between Smart Growth and Smart Communities.
Overheads from Technology and Your Economy: Getting Wired for the Future, a presentation to the Inland Northwest Partners Spring Meeting in Pullman, Washington, March 18, 1999
Global Telematics was the outside evaluator for the Rural Coalition's SuperMarket project, which designed a way for the Internet in its early days to enable small-scale farmers to access the markets and services they need to be successful. As a result of this project, initiated with the support of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Oxfam America, and others, The Rural Coalition enabled consumers buy products directly from rural communities through channels that maximize the economic returns to producers.
Global Telematics and Center for the New West in 1997 presented an El Pomar Forum, "Wired Communities, Smart States: Is Digital Infrastructure the New Public Works?"
John Niles presented a briefing on digital public works at the FARNET annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia in March, 1998. Earlier, we described a framework for thinking about digital infrastructure in an article for New Telecom Quarterly.
Report of historic interest: Advanced Telecommunications for Economic Development in Washington State, 1989 commissioned by Mike Fitzgerald, director of Governor Booth Gardner's Economic Development Commission. Pre-Internet perspective.
Last modified, May 05, 2013